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	<title>Years of Poems and Spirits &#187; epistemology</title>
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		<title>Before Sleeping My Way to HK &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need to write down this line before I lost it -
&#8220;A culture is an Existential Choice. An Existential Choice is one such that it is its consequence. And that consequence is what people call Truth. &#8221;
Here I said it.
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		<title>Reason, Belief and Complexity</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/1245/reason-belief-and-complexity.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While listening to a debate on healthcare, I came to this question again &#8211; at what point an issue becomes complicated enough that people resort to their belief/faith and abandon reason altogether?
Apparently, this is a gradual process -
1. If the issue is simple enough, or there are only a few deciding factors, simple reasoning (&#8221;good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angels and Demons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 09:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watched A&#038;D last night. It was pretty entertaining (perhaps because I never read the novel). Still, it wasn&#8217;t a movie worth blogging until I saw this piece on WaPo, Angels &#038; Demons &#038; Disclaimers.
While discussing why he didn&#8217;t watch Mel Gibson&#8217;s The Passion of Jesus Christ, the writer, David Waters, mentioned the idea of &#8220;the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>临睡前的笔记</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/958/%e4%b8%b4%e7%9d%a1%e5%89%8d%e7%9a%84%e7%ac%94%e8%ae%b0.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[于建嵘：县政改革请自改变“异地为官”始
keywords：改流为土，异地为官，offset the effect of election,
官员更容易倾向于对上负责而不是对下负责, 在历史上,外地来的“官”常常需要用自己的私人班子———各种“师爷”来控制本乡本土的“吏”。
这些官员每个星期都要在家与单位两边跑,县乡政府在食宿、交通工具、娱乐设施等方面进行的巨大投资,已使某些地方的行政成本大量增加
“省直管县”改革并没有引起太大的关注就已经取得了较大进展 (查：vs. 市管县)
杨恒均：全民医保会不会让我们“国破人亡”？
keywords: 中国文化惹祸,
十五年前，帮一位香港朋友在国内联系外科医生动脑部肿瘤的手术，交了昂贵的费用后，医生暗示手术时还要送红包，最后那位香港朋友哆哆嗦嗦地送出了一万元的大红包，手术很成功啊。（有黑色幽默，可入当代《世说新语》）
不是这医保计划不好，而是我突然想，这医保说得比唱的还好听，从长远来看，几乎可以和西方国家如澳洲相媲美。可问题是，我们有适应这种从外面引进的全面医保的“文化”和“制度”吗？（正在跟踪医保改革，报大希望，可能是nation质变的开始。但这的确是盆（应有）的凉水）
我们一边和国际接轨，一边拼命把人家先进的东西搬进来（人权啊，劳动合同法啊，全民医保啊，教师待遇啊等等），一边却在那里拼命抵触支撑这些东西的价值观。（说的很有意思，又回到了“体用”之争。可引伸到法律，法制的软弱表现）
中国文化惹祸：A new Chinese immigrant in Australia wrote a letter to his son&#8217;s teacher, with regard to the pending reference for college entrance. Together with the letter, he stuffed A$2,500 in the envelope. When he was prosecuted for bribing a public servant, his defense was, &#8220;that is how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>学者为什么要有人文精神</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[朱子曰，“闲来无事不从容”。我最近却是“闲来万事不从容”。早上突然烦躁地睡不着，披着睡衣在计算机前“上早朝”。
不过看到好的文章，就像找到了一个好的朋友。一句“唉，对了”表达的往往大大多于只是一种同意。
最近一个中国的心理学专家叫孙东东（?!)，在和媒体讨论信访问题时，随口说了一句，“对那些老上访专业户，我负责任地说，不说100%吧，至少99%以上精神有问题——都是偏执型精神障碍”
乍一看，照英文说法，我下巴差点掉下来。但仔细看看上下文，他想说的问题不是说不可能存在：
你们可以去调查那些很偏执地上访的 人。他反映的问题实际上都解决了，甚至根本就没有问题。但是他就没完没了地闹，你怎么和他解释都不成。于是舆论开始关注这些人的权利是不是得不到保障，这 实际上是缺少基本的精神卫生知识。
我马上想到最近看到的于建嵘先生对于信访制度的批评。大意是，信访制度是中央和地方政权之间博弈用的一个棋子。它的存在干扰了正常的司法操作，拖延了“以法制代替人治”的进程。我看了觉得特有启发。
信访是不好，是不是因为这个原因，那位孙东东就有情可原了呢？接下来，马上看到了于建嵘对于此事的反应：精神病学专家孙教授的拍脑袋学术。说的太好了：
孙教授应该给我们提供的，是支持他观点的事实依据，包括老上访专业户的定义、调查样本的数量、范围，调查人员的背景，以及偏执型精神障碍的认定程序和标准、对样本的诊疗记录等等。
于先生可是拿了数据才去批评信访制度。对我来说，这是起码的做学问的态度。可是，最主要的以下一段，说得我身子往后一仰，大叫，“唉，对了！”
这件事也触动了我内心深处长久以来的一个想法。作为常识，现代学科的细致分工和日益专业化，使对世界、社会、现象、事件的认知和解释，出现了多元化的趋 势。各专业内部的术语、理论等，甚至常常是不相容的。打个简单的比方，用现代心理学知识分析代表隐逸文化的陶渊明，大概属于“社会适应不良”，清末、民国 时热血的革命者，似乎是“反社会人格”。技术消解了价值和意义。具体到每个学者，有限的知识背景，使其结论也可能是有限的。肩负重任的专家，更要意识到自 己身上的局限性，以免落入盲人摸象的境地。而更多的社会责任感和人文精神，比如对弱者的同情，可能会帮助专业人士弥补技术的局限，获得更大的视角。
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		<title>A Long Discussion on Tibet</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/518/a-long-discussion-on-tibet.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denis is kind enough to engage me on an earlier post. It took me days to write replies. Nevertheless, I am pretty happy I was able to wrap my arm around this issue. 
I don&#8217;t have too many things I can call &#8220;labor of love&#8221;. This is certainly one of those. After writing the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflexivity</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/449/reflexivity.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In sociology, reflexivity is an act of self-reference where examination or action &#8216;bends back on&#8217;, refers to, and affects the entity instigating the action or examination. In brief, reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect.  (Wiki entry)
Is this an answer to the criticism of Structualism? Found this through Soros&#8217; investment theory/observation:
Soros argues that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Said Would Say about Tibet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just re-read Edward Said&#8217;s Orientalism a couple of days ago. Wondered what would he say about what is going on in Tibet?
I am afraid his strong identification to the Palestinian cause would compell him to side with the Tibetans. But ironically, it is his argument in Orientalism that helps me to justify my identification with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power, Interpretation, Truth: Desire and Humiliation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel mentally twisted. I think I am on to something, but can&#8217;t say it or describe it as a body of knowledge. I think I am talking to Foucault and Nietzsche, but can&#8217;t understand what they are saying. I am just not good enough. I am not worthy.
Ever since I realized, after taking Migdal&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books on America&#8217;s Anti-Intellectualism</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/403/books-on-americas-anti-intellectualism.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYT introduced a couple of recent books (&#8220;Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge&#8221;)on America&#8217;s anti-intellectual tradition.
Quotes:
Ms. Jacoby, whose book came out on Tuesday, doesn’t zero in on a particular technology or emotion, but rather on what she feels is a generalized hostility to knowledge.
T. J. Jackson Lears, a cultural historian who edits the [...]]]></description>
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